Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quaintly termed a liberal education? Neither Mr. Olson nor Mr. Whiteman would tolerate illiterate and uninformed artists in his troupe. And if eight years are necessary for the technical perfection desired in a jazz band, then at least two and perhaps four more are required to cultivate the delicate social graces which should accompany the deft xylophonist. No xylophonist can hope to get away merely on the strength of his ability at his instrument: he must possess savoir-faire elan and also some gift for intelligent repartee...
...political theorizing, are all, just now, a bit beside the point. The case, itself, is a single instance containing within its own history all the elements necessary to its reasonable settlement. The defendants are two individuals without,-- as far as judicial process is concerned,-- the attributes of race and social position. The mechanisms of the judicial system are side-issues, too, and the Governor, in whose hands the matter now is, will do well to ignore them for the present. He needs but look to the original evidence, measure, if he can, the almost overwhelming doubt that meets...
...been announced that all Freshmen who are interested in debating, or in this special topic of discussion, are invited to attend the meeting, and to take part in the discussion following the prepared speeches. At the close of the program a social hour will be held...
...Loved the Ladies is the most horribly acted play in Manhattan. The plot: A maiden, born sub rosa, inherits the millions of her father. Fortunately for her social pretensions, he also leaves letters to prove he was the intermittent paramour of nearly every respected matron in town...
...Congregational pastor emeritus, whose son, Bruce Barton, wrote The Man Nobody Knows and The Book Nobody Knows) wrote in the Red Book for June: "The most interesting fact in the social life of the globe is the permanent division of the human race into two sexes, approximately equal in number, and each necessary to the complement of the other. Sex, either in itself or in some of its many manifestations-the family, the home, education, life-insurance and all the rest-can never be very far from the centre of the stage in anybody's thinking...